John Efron digests centuries of German Jewish history, including medieval meat markets and a Nazi era obsession with kosher ...

I am starting The Jewish Curry Culture Club as a space to explore Jewish history and diaspora – not as nostalgia, not as identity performance, but as a serious historical archive. Recipes, techniques, ...

Timeless classics, modern favorites, and totally unique monikers that no one else in your kid’s class will share—you can find it all in the Hebrew Bible. Take a trip back in time to the Old Testament ...

For those who want to connect with their Jewish roots, check out our roundup of beautiful Hebrew baby girl names. Whether you want a name that’s more on the traditional side of things (think: Rachel ...

Yosef S. Razin in an article in the Times of Israel titled “Avraham: Guilt and Faith in the Fiery Furnace” November 5, 2020 says: “Abraham in the fiery furnace, a well known story though it does not ...

In a recent piece in these pages, I addressed a popular myth: that Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazar pagans who converted to Judaism. Though this idea gets a lot of attention, it is fully based ...

All cultures have a tendency to make their building blocks into part of a collective myth, oversimplifying them in textbooks and in the collective consciousness of their members. We Jews are hardly ...